Your “Personal Planning and Safety” will be discussed at the quarterly Coordinator’s meeting of the Fairfield Glade Neighborhood Watch Coalition, to be held at the Community and Conference Center on Wednesday, June 13, from 9A.M. to noon.

The featured presentation of the meeting, “Personal Planning and Safety,” will provide each of us with knowledge of the tools and resources available to be “cool, calm & collected” in the face of a personal emergency, rather than being “frenzied, frantic & forgetful.”

In addition to coordinators and members of existing neighborhood groups, all Glade residents are invited and encouraged to attend.

The agenda will consist of four items with plenty of time for questions & answers following each presentation.

1. Mr. Charlie Larkin, Chair of the Coalition, will provide an update/summary of our activities and accomplishments over this past year. They have grown from about 15 neighborhood watch groups to almost 30! Come, hear and ask questions about our first “Year in Review.”

2. Bruce Horn, acting Vice Chair, will provide an update on the status of the Coalition’s web-site development and our on-going project to map each of our neighborhood groups.

3. FEATURE PRESENTATION: Joan Fredericks of Fairfield Glade Resident Services will present a refresher on Personal Planning and Safety, one of the Coalition’s 4 “P’s.” The four “P’s” of the founding Charter consist of Crime Prevention, Personal Planning and Safety, Preparedness, and Partnering.

4. Lastly, the group will elect two new Board Members – Vice-Chairperson and Membership Officer. Initially, each of these was a one-year term, becoming a permanent two-year term beginning with this election.

Ms. Fredericks feature presentation will reiterate the necessity for the smart and savvy senior to pay attention to personal planning and safety. The 2011 member survey revealed that the second highest valued service of Fairfield Glade residents was to have Fairfield Glade Public Safety respond to calls for assistance.

You can help yourself, your loved ones, as well as Public Safety and other First-Responders, by becoming prepared for health/medical situations and emergencies. Resources, aids and tools have been developed for you and your family. They are free and available today.

Being prepared in the planning of personal safety ensures that when a health/medical event or crisis happens you will not become “frenzied, frantic & forgetful,” but instead, remain “cool, calm & collected.”

Being prepared with personal safety programs and services may save your life or your loved one’s life.